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[Now that we're back to mudball fights, we should take them to a fresh sandbox.  I'm constantly amused by our lefty readers not refuting/citing the facts but simply dismissing them on the basis of their dislike of the publisher or broadcaster.  Haven't seen rightwinger dismiss what came out of Maddow simply because it came out of Maddow, who can report verifiable facts as well as the next talking head.  But some of us do take Maddow et al with a dim view when they offer their opinions and interpretations as being something more than the views from their respective perches.  gjr]

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  1. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    It’s a weird world. Just few days ago I was tempted to post a one-liner that would have said, β€œIs it just me, or has anyone else noticed that no one is talking about John Bolton anymore.”
    Glad I did not post that. All we heard after the Christmas break in January was β€˜Bolton, Bolton Bolton, the darling of the Left who was going to bring down Trump and have Orange Man Bad convicted and removed from office.’
    Now it is back to hating on Bolton. I wish they would make up their minds. I wish for that which is impossible. The silver lining is that they have made up their minds: China good, America bad. Iran good, America bad. Hamas good, Israel bad.

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  2. Walt Avatar

    Another LIB out to look like a fool. Well, she did find a way yo get in the press,
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/06/democrat-tavia-galonski-trump-chloroquine-crimes-against-humanity/

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt @ 9:39 am
    Ding, ding ding. Best post of the new week. ROFLMAO. Oh my. Where do these bed stains come from? Great post, Walt.
    I thought this was good, but it does not hold a candle to yours. The Hague trumps all.
    β€˜Tinfoil Mika: Trump Promotes Possible COVID Cure So Much He Must Have ‘Financial Tie’
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2020/04/06/mika-trump-promotes-hydroxychloroquine-because-he-has-financial
    Oh my. Almost as goofy as Mary’s posts. Oh Linda, you go girl.
    –Trump’s denial and fear of his precious popularity will result in thousands of deaths,
    Posted by: Mary Wanna | 01 April 2020 at 05:49 AM
    β€”Loudmouth Trump is the Energizer Screwup,
    Trump, Hannity, Limbaugh should be jailed.
    Posted by: Mary Wanna | 01 April 2020 at 06:36 AM
    Lol. Morning Walt. That’s for the big belly laughs. β€œI can’t take it anymore! I am going The Hauge. They love China

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  4. Walt Avatar

    I wanna know how she got there in the first place… With the.travel restrictions and all.
    “β€œI can’t take it anymore,” Galonski wrote on social media, condemning Trump’s expression of hope that the drug hydroxychloroquine will successfully treat coronavirus patients. β€œI’ve been to The Hague.”

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  5. Mary Wanna Avatar

    Okay Scenes if this is true then Trump’s administration is just incompetent, okay good to know.

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  6. Walt Avatar

    Hi Marty,, still can’t say who is better for the job than Trump? Go ahead, vote for Biden.. Does he know even what year it is?πŸ€£πŸ€£πŸ€£πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ
    Oh…. Yaaa.. Biden NOW backs Trump’s travel retrictions.πŸ‘

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  7. Walt Avatar

    Marty… How come the local snitches ain’t ratting out the dope smokers passing a joint on the streets of Nevada city?
    But quick to call the cops on some business.

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    β€œThis Guy Is Either Incompetent or Playing Games.”
    One woman’s opinion on β€˜Why Inspector General Michael Atkinson Roundly Deserved To Be Fired
    Here are the details you need’
    https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/06/why-inspector-general-michael-atkinson-roundly-deserved-to-be-fired/
    Tied to FICA warrants? Oh my. There is that DOJ-National Security Division…again.

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  9. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    BIDEN MUST GO
    β€œAs the Trump administration has been working feverishly (if at times misguidedly, in my opinion) to deal with the Wuhan virus, Joe Biden has been a pathetic bystander, putting out videos from his house and appearing occasionally on television. In both venues he has repeatedly lied about what the Trump administration is doing. Or, to be fair, he may be so out of it that he just doesn’t have a clue. Democratic Party fact-checkers have racked up one Biden Pinocchio after another, as his claims have been impossible to defend.
    But the real point is that Biden lacks the mental capacity of an average human being, let alone a viable candidate for the presidency. Check out this clip, which is a couple of days old; I just saw it today on The Lid. Biden bizarrely claims that stimulus checks are being held up because the president insists on signing all of them, personally:”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/04/biden-must-go.php
    Yep, Trump is signing those millions of Stimulus checks one by one, ROFLMO

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  10. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Merry Wanker | 06 April 2020 at 10:42 AM
    Okay Scenes if this is true then Trump’s administration is just incompetent, okay good to know.

    It will be interesting to see if Trump pulls an FDR and decides to stretch his tenure a bit……long enough at least to “retire” a substantial percentage of whiny refugees from the 60’s…..you know….for the good of the nation!

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  11. Walt Avatar

    Just like that “jack’s Links” commercial. Marty RUNS from Sasquatch.

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  12. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 06 April 2020 at 11:13 AM
    Yep, Trump is signing those millions of Stimulus checks one by one, ROFLMO

    It’s not even fun making fun of the GaffeMaster any more….just sad! C’mon dems…..nominate Governor Goombah Goombah Goombah so Roberta really gets a case of the Steamin Undies!
    (Hey….did one of you fine individuals tell me that resident whack job Linda Kelleher (or whatever s/he/it is calling itself these days) was likely our very own “Robert Cross”?)

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  13. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Walt | 06 April 2020 at 11:17 AM
    Am I to understand that our little “Mary” is really a Marty in drag?

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  14. Mary Wanna Avatar

    You really Don’t want to start a measuring exercise about who lies most about what,
    https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/trump-falsely-claims-he-inherited-empty-stockpile/

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  15. Walt Avatar

    Facts on that are already out there Marty, Your on the losing end of the facts war.

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  16. Walt Avatar

    “Measuring contest”? You have one of those “adjusted” for
    Lefties” scales?

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  17. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    β€œOkay Scenes if this is true then Trump’s administration is just incompetent, okay good to know.”
    Sounds like Bloody Mary is channeling Punchy!
    Fish @ 11:20 am….. no it was the connection of wackjob Linda and john smith. :). Nevermind Dixon and Roberta.
    Don’t matter. They are al non-essential

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  18. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    moi @ 11:47 am
    Daddy issues are the common thread.

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  19. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So where is the screaming blue mobs outrage at election interference? Oh right they are busy parroting emperor xi’s chi com lines –
    https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/04/06/china-floods-facebook-with-ads-blaming-trump-for-chinese-virus/
    πŸ˜‰

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  20. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 06 April 2020 at 11:47 AM
    Sounds like Bloody Mary is channeling Punchy!

    PunchyWanna?

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  21. Mary Wanna Avatar

    Don, yes, and Trump keeps kissing China’s behind and complimenting them every chance he gets about what a great relationship we have with China. Funny, huh?

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  22. Walt Avatar

    Fish. “Marty”/Mary hasn’t denied it.

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  23. Mary Wanna Avatar

    Looks like Trump businesses are excluded from receiving bailouts. Now, more than ever, we need to see Trump’s taxes to make sure he has no other investments that might be eligible for bailouts,
    https://twitter.com/senschumer/status/1243199847454441481?s=21

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  24. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: BillT@11:47
    “Sounds like Bloody Mary is channeling Punchy!”
    They all sound alike. Uninterested in climbing out of the hole, just more 2016 election nonsense. If all that you have is a hammer, etc.
    Truth is, if you go through every decision and statement of the last decade or two, there’s plenty of failed ventilator designs and stock-ups, plenty of N95 shortages, plenty of people who were too optimistic and too pessimistic. I certainly don’t blame Obama for the lack of N95s in the stockpile, 100:1 odds he never knew about it, plus it wasn’t an obvious problem.
    Bummer that none of these folks in charge have time machines, I really did like the cartoon posted up of FDR getting bitched at after Pearl Harbor. Imagine the screwups in the first campaign in North Africa.
    Set aside a billion medical masks, and the next problem will be an asteroid or a Carrington Event (or the lack of a certain Soviet Colonel). Count on it.
    The real question is how to deal with China when this is all over.

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  25. Walt Avatar

    Emery has splain’n to DO!
    His queen wants the FED GOV. to TAKE OVER,, elections..
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/06/gop-gears-up-for-next-relief-fight-democrats-want-the-federal-government-to-take-over-elections/
    Yes, PROGGYS would LOVE to have that control. And the LIBS say Trump wants to be a dictator?

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  26. Walt Avatar

    Oh.. Wait a minute. Trump wanted to audit the state election system.. Proggys bitched. Does that mean Trump can get his audit?

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  27. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Chi coms gonna be chi coms –
    China’s efforts to rebrand itself as a global leader focused on humanitarian relief amid the coronavirus outbreak has hit a major snag and perhaps revealed Beijing’s true intentions behind their public relations blitz.
    After telling the world that it would donate masks, face guards and testing equipment to Italy, China quietly backtracked and sold the Mediterranean country desperately-needed medical equipment, according to a report.
    https://www.foxnews.com/world/china-italy-coronavirus-supplies-buy-back
    πŸ˜‰

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  28. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Merry Wanker | 06 April 2020 at 12:12 PM
    Now, more than ever, we need to see Trump’s taxes to make sure he has no other investments that might be eligible for bailouts…

    ….and a pony! Tell em you want a pony too….I mean as long as your asking for things you aren’t going to get!

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don
    Does that mean the Chi-Coms are interfering in our 2020 Presidential elections?? WTH, indicte the whole lot of those Chinese bots!! And the Chinese intelligence officers. We need a Special Council….er…a very Special Prosecutor to find out wherever the Dems and Joe Biden colluded with a foreign power to stay the election to Sleepy Joe!
    It’s the Yellow Peril behind the Bamboo Curtain….the Sleeping Giant awakes and boy is his diaper full..and arrogant. A rather nasty enemy of our people.
    China good. Russia bad.

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scenes @ 12:39 pm β€”β€œ Truth is, if you go through every decision and statement of the last decade or two, there’s plenty of failed ventilator designs and stock-ups, plenty of N95 shortages, plenty of people who were too optimistic and too pessimistic. I certainly don’t blame Obama for the lack of N95s in the stockpile, 100:1 odds he never knew about it, plus it wasn’t an obvious problem.”
    Excellent. I sometimes shake my head at this Addicted to Outrage hysterics directed at Trump for decisions made by the Bureaucracy that any POTUS would be unaware of at the Chief Executive level.
    Reminds me of when the Dems went after Jim Jordan when he was an assistant wrestling coach for homosexual sexual assaults in the locker room showers . First, the two assurers were totally discredited, being in a different place and time and the story fell apart, not tmtionthe criminal records and previous convictions for lying, dealing, and being shiftless fellows.
    Second, not one of the 8 wrestlers said they ever told Jordan about any incidents, not one accused Jordan of anything except outstanding and upstanding conduct, That was when Dems where trying to kick Jordan off the committee. Same thing happened to Nunes.
    Anyway, when all was said and done and the ethics committee ended the Jordan investigation, Pelosi stood before the cameras and declared that even though Jordan did not know of any inappropriate behavior going on, β€œβ€He Should Have!”
    And yes, one of our frequent Kool-Aide guzzling sock puppets brings it up from time to time. Waste of time to change that mind. Not worth the effort

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  31. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Boy, those Trump tax returns really drives Roberta crazy. Stuck in her caw, eating at her.
    Let the record show than many many moons ago I told the puppets that Trump will release his tax returns….in the second year of his second term. Mark the tape!
    Trump will probably release them early in his second year and the Dems can make it a campaign issue for the mid-terms, 2022-β€˜Taxes: America in Crisis.’

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    What would Gavin do?
    Federal Judges Deny Emergency Release Of Calif. Inmates Amid Pandemic
    https://www.oann.com/federal-judges-deny-emergency-release-of-calif-inmates-amid-pandemic/

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  33. Walt Avatar

    See? Mexico still demands OUR money.
    https://dailycaller.com/2020/04/06/mexican-migrants-urged-to-send-remittances/
    “Mexican President AndrΓ©s Manuel LΓ³pez Obrador is urging citizens living in the United States to keep sending money to relatives back home, despite whatever economic struggles they are facing because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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  34. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt
    Mexico will be paying for The Wall, you betcha. There is more than one way to skin a cat. Heck, Mexico has sent 27,000 troops to guard open stretches and spots along the border until the Wall is built. How much is that costing them?
    Do find it funny that the Cartels are taking it in the shorts with the maritime supply chain as been disrupted. Where the Diablo are those tons of ingredients…er….pharmaceutical compounds from China?? Longshoremen would like to know. Truckers would like to know.
    Those big cartel factories are idle and laying off the Mexican workers. Skilled workers. Always a silver lining, even in a National Emergency. Thank you, China.
    β€œIllegal Border Crossings Collapse to Near Zero”
    https://bongino.com/illegal-border-crossings-collapse-to-near-zero/?

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  35. Walt Avatar

    Yup, MEX is losing big as you mentioned.
    Paul must be livid with his self imposed exile.
    Well,, then again, three C rations says he’s posting as “Marty”(in drag)
    You know he Emery is passionate about hating Trump’s wall.
    There is just about “shoot on sight” orders for anyone seen on the streets just about every place in America,, but not down on the border. LIBS sure have their priorities.

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  36. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Like T. O’Neill sez: “all politics is local”
    Costa Mesa Officials Address Growing Concerns Over Possible Transfer Of Up To 50 Coronavirus Patients To City
    “At a press conference, officials including Mayor Katrina Foley gathered to answer questions about the injunction filed to block the CDC and the U.S. Department of Health from transferring as many as 50 patients who have tested positive for coronavirus from Sacramento to the city’s Fairview Developmental Center.”
    https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/02/22/costa-mesa-coronavirus/

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  37. Walt Avatar

    Poor Marty.. Lame as usual.
    Down to drinking that bong water?

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  38. Walt Avatar

    So Hillary would have prevented it….. RIIggghhhhhhtttttt….
    Sure thing Marty in drag. You keep believing that.

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  39. Walt Avatar

    Here Paul,, uhhhh,,”Mary”,, I’m sure Joe believed he was calling “O”.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/06/joe-biden-calls-donald-trump-to-discuss-coronavirus/

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  40. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Merry Wanker | 06 April 2020 at 02:54 PM
    Breitbart, news you can trust. Max Boot concludes that Trump is the worst President ever.

    Max Boot?
    #sad

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  41. fish Avatar
    fish

    It’s OK to be “Coonman” if you’re for gun control!
    https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1247240259043233795/photo/1
    Satire is truly dead!

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  42. Walt Avatar

    Das Boot, From the sinking ship known as CNN.

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  43. Walt Avatar

    Read it and cringe How dare a LIB credit Trump.
    https://dailycaller.com/2020/04/06/democratic-michigan-rep-karen-whitsett-credits-trump-with-saving-her-life/
    “Democratic Michigan state Rep. Karen Whitsett credited President Donald Trump for saving her life after she used hydroxychloroquine to treat her coronavirus.
    Whitsett was diagnosed with the novel coronavirus late last month, and said she started to feel relief just two hours after taking the drug, according to The Detroit Free Press.”
    No wonder the LIB press has been slamming the use of that medication.
    Yup, They hope the virus takes Trump down… Right Paul,, uh,, Mary? By the way,,, just where is Peter?

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  44. George Rebane Avatar

    Gentlemen – put your pithy and insightful remarks about fighting C19 under ‘Fighting C19’. Thank you.

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  45. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The PC police come to chi com emperor Xi’s rescue –
    https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/04/06/michigan-state-u-lists-acceptable-names-for-chinese-virus/
    πŸ˜‰

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  46. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    I discovered a channel, Inspiration that runs restored versions of very popular old TV shows with western themes bridging new programing. It had advertised the premier episode of Gunsmoke this weekend which to my surprise had a big intro from the Duke. It was the number 1 tv show for a long time and Bonanza which is number 2 and also The Virginian which is number 3.
    I had seen some of the Bonanza and Gunsmokes at my Grand Parents but never saw the half hour BW Gunsmokes or anywhere near them all. Never seen the Virginian’s. They are not bad at all and i have enjoyed them for their production values and the horse handling and guest stars.
    So yesterday they had a chi com virus PSA with new show stars being pushed with a mix of old TV personalities.
    To my surprise they had very recent video of James Drury who was the star of my newly discovered Virginians do a small bit. I had no idea he was still alive and was pleasantly surprised and he looked happy.
    Then this today –
    https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/james-drury-the-virginian-star-dead
    RIP Virginian I am just getting to enjoy your work.
    πŸ˜‰

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  47. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    For a change of pace…..one writer’s opinion
    Sickness and Stoicism
    https://quillette.com/2020/04/04/sickness-and-stoicism/

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  48. Mary Wanna Avatar

    Who? Stephanie Grisham out as White House press secretary after eight months during which she held no regular news briefings

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